Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared…
"If you build it strong enough, the law will follow." That's how Daniel Nagy, the leading developer behind Swarm – ethereum's decentralized storage-layer – described his "takeaway lesson"…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) settlement with the founder of EtherDelta is likely the first of many enforcement actions to come against crypto token exchanges. Until…
"People don't realize how much information is out in the open." That's Péter Szilágyi, an ethereum core developer who manages development on the ethereum software client Geth. He's referring…
Efforts to scale ethereum, the world's second-largest blockchain, are growing more varied as one much-anticipated solution encounters pitfalls amid its continued development. At the forefront of this…
Silicon Valley cryptocurrency unicorn Coinbase has taken an unusual and expensive step to recruit and retain diverse employees. Since the summer, Coinbase has quietly offered to cover up…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has advanced its main blockchain project to a testing phase with 15 global banks, one of the last steps before…
